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Character Analysis
Due: 20th August
Purpose: To make the reader feel like they know the character
Audience: People visiting the school library
Structure/content Success Criteria
 Writing Success Criteria
  • Physical Description
  • Personality – emotions/virtues
  • Relationships – character web/family tree
  • Pictures/images
  • History of their life – timeline?
MUST JUSTIFY FROM TEXT
  • Language feature
  • Concise and relevant
  • Links between paragraphs
  • Developing ideas
  • Range of sentence types – FOR effect
  • Varied sentence beginnings
  • Correct punctuation
  • Tense
  • Yummy words


What should your book review contain?
  • The book’s title and author

  • A brief summary of the plot that doesn’t give away too much

  • Comments on the book’s strengths and weaknesses

  • The reviewer’s personal response to the book with specific examples to support praise or criticism
Tips for writing a book review
1. Scholastic